College Tennis: Origin Story (WIP) - Updated 8 Jun '25 [968k words]

I feel really bad about breaking up Deepal and Tobin pair, but then Tobi is life and I really want for my MC to play with them? How hurt Deepal would be to learn that Tobi wants to switch partners?
Great update, I really enjoyed it!

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Playing as a cocky MC that can back it up on the tennis court is a menace :joy: poor coaches are going to have grey hairs early enough with me around and I’m still surprised that I got paired up with Rayyan for the doubles but I kinda wish there was a cocky option to say something like ā€œokay look you and I are the best so once we kick everybody’s asses out on the court, we can have our little mano a mano and settle it later on the court.ā€

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I lost against Deepal, but since I was playing a junkballer and the game didn’t let me play as a junkballer against him and use my finesse, I don’t feel like I deserved that loss.

And considering I won both of my doubles matches, including my game with Afiq, it seems a little weird that he’s acting like I’m some albatross around his neck when we are a winning team. It’s just a bit of whiplash for him to go from ā€œYou aren’t a bad partnerā€ to ā€œIs coach on drugs?ā€

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mc who is humble and shows good sportmanship towards all players but is exlucisvley cocky and showboaty towards rayyan is peak.

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There’s no way to win against Rayyan and Deepal so far—but depending on your choices, you do end up taking more or less sets/games from them.

This is just so that there’s some narrative progression for the story, can’t have MC being too insanely good at the very start! :wink:

Well that’s what Allie said in her tumblr.

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Post a screenshoot of your stats and i could try to see if i can help you achive victory.

Also remember losing is a important part of any sport and learning how to recover from defeat is just as important as learning how to win.

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Cant my session get reset so all my saves aren’t there oh well I think I was mainly losing because of finesse

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I’m pretty sure that Afiq, now that their previous doubles partner is gone, was banking on getting partnered up with Tobin, who is top doubles partner - they have the disposition to adapt to their strengths and weaknesses and, as an all-rounder, the skills to succeed at it.

Of course, the likelihood of the coaches breaking up the Tobin-Deepal duo is slim, because they already have a huge amount of experience partnering up and work great together (though I venture that Tobin’s skills AND personality make it likely that they would work great together with any partner).

This does not evade the fact that Afiq is a monumental asshole, and this doubles team is going to be an ordeal for my player. If things get out of hand, I can always sic Addie on them, I guess.

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So we won’t be able to change to Tobin?

I am a cheaty cheater who cheats so I can make it work any way but I still prefer Tobin as a partner.

Was perfectly fluid and she’s nice.

With Afiq it feels like I have to work around rather than with her. Not to mention the horrible behavior towards the end which makes me even less willing to work with her.

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Yep, also no secret my mc would have preferred Max, Tobin would be great too, but Tobin is great with (almost, looking at you Felix) everybody as their own doubles partner, though coach pairing two freshmen was probably also remote. Maybe next year though since Tobin will be graduating a Deepal Afiq double would then become available and one year of doubling with Rayyan is more than enough for my mc.

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Tobin seems amenable to it, and Afiq doesn’t want to be partnered with you, so maybe you can convince the coaches whem in-game Monday comes. If both parties don’t want the pairing, it feels counter-productive with regards to results to force you to pair up anyway. Or the coaches may decide to do it anyway, at least for a bit - after all, you DID beat the Tobin-Deepal pairing, so they might make you give it a try anyway.

Yeah, Tobin has the court skill and the personality to make a good doubles partner for anyone.

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Ray being so bent about being partnered with MC just pisses off my MC. It’s hilarious. My MC raging, won both of the doubles. Hit the devil’s dozen. Holds her own. I look forward to the continued fireworks between them as rivals.

I think tumblr ate my post, so I will say it here. Those codes saved my life as I hurdled through different playthroughs. Sam>G>Tobin. My three bbys. Sam is a clown. I love them.
ā€œdo somethingā€ :rofl:

I want to add, that I really loved the flavor text pre-med had. I really enjoy having an MC that is smart, well aware how sports works. She has a good plan to still be part of the sports world going into sports medicine should things not work out. It just made laugh them getting snarky ā€œthis is why you’re premedā€ comments. Loved it. :heart:

I still think your ability at writing is witchcraft. I do not care about sports. I know nothing about tennis. Here I am super invested in it. Sorcery.

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So I need hints on how to get devil dozen. What stat do I need to achieve it? I played multiple time but still can’t get it :frowning:

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I think it’s mainly finesse that can help you with the Devil’s Dozen and I’m pretty sure having good endurance and agilty will help as well since endurance, agility and finesse are the top 3 best stats that I had and I managed to get the achievement for it.

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Can you tell me your percentage of endurance, agility and finesse for that achievement? :grin:

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Endurance and agility are 35 and 32 respectively. Finesse was 29 while strength and tactics were 20 while s/v was the lowest at 15

Playing as an defensive counter puncher

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Okay thank you so much, now I’m gonna try it

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I was wondering, with the Sam team jacket, I’m playing with an average height MC and opposite-gender Sam, so I feel like us wearing the same size doesn’t really fit, because the height difference should still be significant enough to be wearing a different sized jacket.

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Should I play from beginning or can i use the save from previous update ?

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To anyone in any game I’ll always tell em to play from the start because any change to the code can, and will, break your previous saves and so in order to no report bugs that only exist with old saves, it’s better to play fresh

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